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Edmodo is basically a web application that is similar to Facebook but provides educational tools instead of a social media platform. Edmodo also reinforces classroom activities. Another benefit of Edmodo is that it allows teachers to create online classes. Teachers post assignments, lecture notes, exams, competitions, and also evaluate students and communicate with them via Edmodo. E-Learning makes it possible to learn about information and communication technologies. Applications such as Edmodo Classroom 2.0 makes it possible to learn even outside the classroom. These applications are viewed as solutions to insufficient class hours and issues that are experienced within the class. In the digital age, new generations tend to maintain different opinions and also different learning capabilities. It’s important that we care about how this generation can learn and respond to diverse teaching methods for the sake of their future. Online activities that support learning outside classroom is similar to other learning practices. Life-long learning is important for building the future of our education. A process is alternative to formal education. It has no place and no time. Life-long learning aims to ensure the community are aware of all learning opportunities, it establishes a culture of learning so that people are excited by learning and they can enhance independent learning through technology. Students who use technology as a part of their life makes life-long learning necessary. E-learning environments and mass media are needed in lifelong learning activities to provide learning outside the school. In this study, a course work is explained with using Edmodo for life-long learning. It also explains how the learning continues in online environments and the benefits of life-long learning of Edmodo. In this way, it is thought that the researchers who study same subjects can benefit in an effective way.
The thesis is devoted to the effectiveness of ESN use in the process of teaching and learning EFL in Primary School. It begins with the analysis of student’s needs and characteristics of ESN. In the next part, using different methods and techniques (content analysis of two ESN, questionnaires for students and teachers that used ESN) the author examines advantages and disadvantages of ESN use. The conclusions from the research show the great potential of ESN in teaching. They also suggest that in polish schools their use is insufficient to take advantage of their capabilities. The research shows also the need of simultaneous introduction of pedagogy 2.0 with the implementation of ESN into the teaching practice.
E-Learning and Digital Media
New Pedagogies of Motivation: reconstructing and repositioning motivational constructs in the design of learning technologiesIn this article the authors examine motivational constructs through the lens of new media-supported educational efforts. By examining a range of online, new-media-based learning communities and instructional technologies, they analyze the ways in which motivation is positioned within the field of education, how ecologies of motivation embedded within new media might be understood, how motivation might be organized and represented, and how constructions of motivational elements in designed learning technologies might help us better understand their fit in different educational contexts and with different students.
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This study aims to analyze the affordances of Edmodo (https://www.edmodo.com), the leading k-12 Social Learning Network (Edmodo, 2018), for the flipping and expansion of foreign, second or additional language (L2 henceforth) classroom. To do so, we first had a brief review of literature on blended learning and selected one of its sub-models suggested by Horn and Staker (2014) – the flipped classroom – to focus on. Then, we considered ten out of the fifteen reasons Bergmann and Sams (2012) shared on why teachers should flip their classrooms and described Edmodo’s main features. Finally, we developed Bergmann and Sams’s ten reasons into four practical reasons on why teachers should consider flipping and expanding their classrooms with Edmodo and spoke about our experiences on this platform. This study showed that the various features of this free platform make it an excellent tool for such purposes and we recommend that teachers take advantage of it and adapt it to their contexts.
ABSTRACT Training on issues concerning the administration of enterprises is very wide spread in educational systems and is requested from most people who want to work for enterprises or to become entrepreneurs themselves. Many Greek universities, institutions and organizations that support life-long learning offer education on this subject field. Greek entrepreneurs nowadays need to face issues that they have not faced before and were not able to predict, due to the current Greek financial crisis. Many of them have studied to the above programs to get the background knowledge for their job; however the great difficulties that they seem to face and the continuous closing of the enterprises demonstrate that the knowledge they got is not applicable and effective to solve the current issues. In an attempt to solve this problem the creation of a blended learning course is proposed to train Greek entrepreneurs on how to practically face their issues. The program will consider the characteristics of human nature that resists to changing of thinking. It will focus on persuading entrepreneurs about the importance of applying the presented new effective strategies and on how to practice them. The proposed educational framework will combine the asynchronous and synchronous communication, so that entrepreneurs can access from their mobile devices. This will make it easier for them to study, considering the daily stressed program of the entrepreneurs. The synchronous meetings will assist interaction where current real problems of entrepreneurs will be presented and solutions based on the practices will be discussed so that the entrepreneurs will practice systematically the theory. On campus support will also be offered partially with the aim to assist entrepreneurs and future students all over the country
This study aimed at exploring the effect of Edmodo use on developing Saudi English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students' Self-Directed Learning (SDL). It employed a quasi-experimental design that included a one group design. The participants (n = 45) were all fifth level students at Languages and Translation Department, Arar Faculty of Education and Arts, Northern Border University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They were pre-tested before the treatment by using the pre Personal Responsibility Orientation to Self-Direction in Learning Scale (PRO-SDLS). They were post-tested after the treatment by using the post PRO-SDLS. The researcher taught the participants during the treatment which based on allowing them to use Edmodo in carrying out a project. The results revealed that a statistically significant difference in the participants' SDL between the pre PRO-SDLS and the post PRO-SDLS in favor of the post PRO-SDLS. Hence, it can be concluded that Edmodo helped the participants develop their SDL on the post PRO-SDLS. Some recommendations and suggestions for further research were included.
(Pg 109-116) Virtual worlds (VWs) seem to have great potential in education. Current educational uses of VWs seem to exploit them more as group interaction platforms in terms of their potential to support collaborative e-learning in both online and blending learning programs. There is also a need for systematic research efforts that will lead to guidelines and principles for designing and evaluating effective learning activities in VWs. This paper presents preliminary empirical results from a sequential explanatory case study with graduate students from a distance education program. A collaborative role-playing learning activity was designed in Second Life (SL) following Salmon’s five-stage model (2004) for computer-mediated conferencing. Graduate students collaborated in-world acting as educational counselors in order to achieve the educational goals of the role-playing scenario. The study presents the process of project implementation and preliminary quantitative findings related to issues may affect the student’s familiarization, collaboration and learning in the three-dimensional (3D) environment.
Electronic learning or e-Learning instructional materials were developed for the ICNS152 Southeast Asia Ecology course, a natural science course offered at the Mahidol University International College, Thailand. The course provides an overview of the ecological systems of Southeast Asia and the current impacts and potential threats to them; the protected area system and their roles in protecting intact ecosystems, in conserving biological diversity, in providing ecological services, and as a key component of ecotourism; and the course looks at the relationship between ecosystem protection and sustainable development, and the international conventions that relate to ecosystem protection. The nature and scope of the course and the diversity of topics and sub-topics offered therein therefore allows for numerous opportunities in the development of e- learning instructional materials for the course, and some of these are presented here.
This research aimed to develop e-Training Strategy for Information Technology Security Model which included 5 steps; Step 1-Depth interview of 8 e-Training Strategy Experts. Step 2-Analysis and synthesis of data and information obtained from expert depth interview and the analysis and synthesis of 12 models of e-Training Strategy in order to develop the outline of e-Training Strategy for Information Technology Security Model. Step 3- Primary assessment of the outline of e-Training Strategy for Information Technology Security Model by 5 experts. Step 4-Evaluation of the outline of e-Training Strategy for Information Technology Security Model by 21 experts. Step 5-Further to the analysis by experts, it had found that e-Training Strategy for Information Technology Security Model consisted of 6 components namely Planning, Analyzing, Designing, Developing, Role Playing, and Evaluation.
General Education Department is using Moodle LMS program (Learning Management System) in order to support Fundamental Psychology course activities. In this course, the lecturer designs for students to learn by watching video clips from the Moodle program. Students can learn more from video clips after class in order to enhancethe students’ understanding of the content. The objective of this research is to study the effectiveness of learning from video clips by using Moodle LMS program of undergrads and the satification of students toward learning from video clips by using Moodle LMS program. There were 286 students registered in Fundamental Psychology in the first semester of the year 2011. The instrument was a questionnaire. The research found that learning from video clips allow students to understand Fundamental Psychology course more, and video clips with audio and animation allow students to remember the content easier. In addition the students have the satisfication of learning from video clips by using Moodle LMS program at a very good level.
Moodle program is a system for which educators can create learning protocol such as learning document, multimedia, assignment, whereas the learning management system (LMS) which is a software application for which learners can interact online courses engaging learners in discussing course materials, to foster a sense of community, and to enhance learning. The purposes of this research were: 1) to develop of on-line instruction media and an administration system based on Moodle program, 2) to create instruction media on TTPM7313: Qualitative Research Design course, and 3) to evaluate satisfactions and attitudes of learners toward on-line instruction media. The populations comprised PhD students registered in Qualitative Research Design course in the second semester of the Academic Year 2011, Christian University. Lesson plans, web-based instructional materials and web blogs were used on Moodle in this research. Content analysis on qualitative work was done to determine trends and major themes. The results revealed that web-based instructional materials on Moodle program encourage learners to focus on their lessons more frequently and also promoted the learners’ eagerness, responsibilities and access to knowledge outside the classroom. Moodle program improved their computer-assisted learning skills as well as knowledge transfer in higher education. The acceptance of web-based instruction was influenced by the learners’ access to online instructional materials, their personalities and the instructor’s teaching performance. In conclusion, Moodle program is a useful tool for developing on-line educational system. It also meets the requirement of educators, and learners who relate to this system. The results show that learners rated their learning at the great level and satisfaction of Moodle program at the highest level.
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Mobile Learning: Unlocking the Potentials for Female Education in KSA
Mobile Learning: Unlocking the Potentials for Female Education in KSA2019 •
TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology
Promoting Students' Paragraph Writing Using EDMODO: An Action Research Is'haq Al-NAIBI Iman AL-KALBANI2018 •
International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 2015, Sevilha. ICERI 2015 Proceedings. Madri: Iated, 2015. v. 1. p. 1052-1058.
AFFORDANCES OF WEB 2.0 INTERFACES FOR THE TEACHING/LEARNING OF L2 IN THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM2015 •
Forging new pathways of research and innovation in open and distance learning: Reaching from the roots
Investigating the Effectiveness of the ‘Online Learner Profiling Questionnaire’ in Generating a Profile of Learners Based on Learner Dispositions2011 •
CHANGING THE GAME: ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN EDUCATION 4.0 PROCEEDINGS 27th MELTA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
The Implementation of Communicative Language Teaching in Iraqi English Language Classrooms2018 •
Proceedings of ICSoTL 2017
The Influence of Problem Based Learning on Students’ Generic Skill2017 •
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Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education-TOJDE
ONLINE LEARNING AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE2018 •
The JALT CALL Journal
Students' and teachers' perceptions of Moxtra as an online space for blended learning2019 •